Great Feeling

It feels so good when you text precisely what you want to say in exactly the way you want to say it and then when you check to see how long it is you hit exactly 160 characters.

Woman Pours Milk

I felt like doing it again.

Here we have a scene that's common in most modern American households, as depicted by Vermeer.

Piano

I really like playing piano a lot. I've got a bunch of books of rock music. I'm pretty good at them. It's a lot of fun to play. I like to play for people. It's fun to have people sing along with you. I started to feel confident about my playing abilities.

Then, yesterday I found I had a book of Classical Masterpieces.




Humbling experience.

Great ideas

You know how sometimes you have ideas that seem absolutely genius? Then you think about them a half-second longer and you realize it's an awful idea? I just did that.

Chicken sashimi.

Woman in Blue Reading a Text

I hope my epitaph says this:

I guess there's no climbing the social ladder if you're born legendary.

Asparagus

When people say they like asparagus, what they really mean is, "I like butter and salt, even on asparagus."

Accounting

I'm so grateful for the masochists who choose to major in Accounting so I won't have to do my own accounting when I rule the world.

One-hit Skydivers

Malfunctioning skydiving equipment and "One-hit" Wonders

should not be put side-by-side in a newsreel

GLBT

One last post.

Every time I see the letters "GLBT" I think it's some fancy variety of the classic BLT. Maybe they added guacamole. I don't know. But whenever I see it, I have to think twice about its meaning.

That is a BLTG not a GLBT.

Hiatus

I am going away for 2 years starting June 21st 2009.

I am going on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Honolulu Hawaii.

I am not sure I will post anything between now and June 24th 2011 (when I return) so, this might be farewell.

I hope Scott will post a few times to keep this place alive. He's in China right now, though. We'll see.

Thank you for reading and spending time here.

Sincerely,
Cameron Hilker

Word Mashups 3

Oddkward
Ingredients: Odd+awkward
Definition: An adjective used to describe an uncommon situation that is also awkward.

Scarifying
Ingredients: Scary+terrifying
Definition: Intensely frightening.

Fact

When you turn a speaker upside down, the music doesn't come out upside down.

Apples to oranges

Comparing apples

to oranges

really shouldn't be taboo.
They're actually pretty similar.

Similarities:

Food

Fruit

Roundish

Yummy

Can make juice out of them

Grow on trees

Are picked by people on ladders.

See? They are actually very much alike. I don't know why the expression "that's like comparing comparing apples to oranges" is used when someone talks about putting dissimilar items in the same category.

Instead of simply complaining about a problem in the universe, I will offer several solutions:

"That's like comparing apples

to

airplanes."

or

"That's like comparing apples

to

piles of books."

or

"That's like comparing apples

to

70s rock bands."

or

"That's like comparing apples

to

video game consoles from the 1990s."

There are countless other items that are much more dissimilar from apples than oranges.

Whoever picked oranges as the contrast to apples is a fool.

Five-stars?

I just thought that this was deliciously ironic, and I had to share.

Courtesy of Wall Street Journal Online

 

I don't think I could find two more

serious-looking, angry, bald men if I tried.

And I found them doing an assignment

for ECON--my main inspiration.

Lazy vs. Efficient

Dictionary.com's first definition of "efficient:"

"Efficient
adjective
performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable."


It is interesting to note that with minor alterations, I can produce a definition for "lazy."


"Lazy
adjective
performing or functioning in a good-enough manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using a good-enough amount of knowledge, skill, and industry; competent enough; capable enough."

How do I know?

Utahns call TV shows "shows." They also call movies "shows."

When they are talking about some visual media of which I have never heard, I have no way to discern whether it is a movie or if it is a show.
I don't get it.

ECON 110, you're on a roll

 

Hear that, guys?

6,000,000,000,000 people.

English, You're So Silly

Home and house can be synonyms, right?

So can maker and builder, right?

How did we end up with:

 

House Builder

and

Homemaker?

War of Attrition

I learned this winter that if you're not wearing gloves, don't start a snowball fight with someone who is. They are going to win every time. Sooner or later your hands will get frostbite and you'll get hit in the face with a snowball. And then get hit several more times. And you won't be able to retaliate because your hands are too cold to hold things.

Watch out for that DEBRIS!

Query:

How does one hit Thursday?

Night Noises

What the heck makes all those sounds in the middle of the night when no one else is around or awake?

Econ, you should be proud of yourself. You're in the blog twice!

This is part of my online text book.

Sometimes, I wonder if such obvious

statements really need to be made.

Error

I just thought that that was one of the coolest screen errors I ever saw.